Defunct Chinese space lab forecast to re-enter in Atlantic

03/04/2018

It's been hard to predict the precise moment when Tiangong-1 will re-enter Earth's atmosphere, and where it will break up into pieces before it lands.

The US military confirmed the re-entry with a statement from its Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC). However, the agency emphasized the uncertainty around predicted re-entry information, stating: "At no time will a precise time/location prediction from ESA be possible". Expected to come crashing back to earth on April 1st sometime during the midday hours.

Most of the space station will likely burn up in the atmosphere but a few large pieces could make their way to Earth.

The UK is too far out of range to be hit.

The Manned Space Agency did not specify a time when it expects the craft to enter the atmosphere.

The space station is expected to re-enter the atmosphere at about 10 a.m. EDT Sunday, plus or minus 16 hours.

"It might be an orbit later, and then the whole window changes", Perlman said of the predictions available Friday afternoon.

Based on its current trajectory, scientists have said the space station could land anywhere from Australia to the USA with the southern part of Michigans Lower Peninsula included in the strip of the United States? from northern California to Pennsylvania? where it might crash down, the report said.

As for where it will fall, that band of possibility has not narrowed in the last day.

In 1979, the 77-tonne USA space station Skylab fell toward Earth, with some pieces, both large and small, reaching the ground. Another spacecraft, Skylab , also did not injure anyone at the time when it crashed, and its parts were later gathered.

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One piece of the wood and remnants of an ancient fire discovered nearby were radiocarbon-dated in 2015 to 13,200 years ago. Prior to this discovery, the oldest human footprints found in North America are thought to only be around 5,000 years old.

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